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A compendious system of astronomy, in a course of familiar lectures; in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not studied the mathematics. Also trigonometrical and celestial problems, with a key to the ephemeris, and a vocabulary of the terms of science used in the lectures; which latter are explained agreeably to their application in them (1797)

Bryan, Margaret, active 1815 · London, Printed for the author and sold by Leigh and Sotheby and G. Kearsley · leaf 312

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Fig. 5. … r.temltr tmlp TRIGONOMETRICAL PROBLEMS. 245 drant to the end next your eye, so is the distance of the objectfrom your zenith point. Also, the degree on the plate of thequadrant over which your quadrant stands, shews the point of thecompass, or the meridian, on which the object is. Thus by this…

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